grant centauri said : > hello, > > i've been having trouble with an old laptop and its CD drive. In order to > even > get pure:dyne to boot I was forced to use a regular CD-R, and when trying to > install I get an I/O error. > > Instead of trying to burn another disc (I did successfully install on another > machine with it after all, plus I'm out of CD-Rs) I thought perhaps I'd try to > make a liveUSB and install from that. However, my machine is old enough that > it doesn't seem to want to boot from USB at all. So after a frustrating > night, > I decided the easiest thing I could think of to get a puredyne realtime kernel > and start doing stuff was to grab the old leek and potato kernel on my already > running debian system and go from there. > > my goal was to get this laptop with a stable realtime setup so I can use it > for > a performance next saturday. I could run just from the liveCD, but I don't > really want to chance something going wrong in the middle of a set. For now, > this solution seems okay, but I would like access to the newer software and > kernel. > > I guess I'm just bringing it up in case anyone had any solutions or work > arounds in case something like this happens to anyone else. > > I was thinking that perhaps I could make a partition on the drive to be a > liveHD install of C&C? It seemed like the make-live-device script wouldn't > work for that because of an issue where if I put /dev/sda3 it was trying to > create partitions /dev/sda31 and /dev/sda32. Perhaps there's a minor change > to > the script that could be made to allow it to live on a partition of a drive? > Or perhaps there's another method to put the ISO somewhere and make it > bootable? It seemed like there was a way with leek&potato, but I wasn't sure > with C&C. > > Any ideas? >
maybe you could mount the iso on a loop, and cp the /live folder to your root and boot everything using grub. I think there is an example for the config in the iso in the extra folder. then you could use a usb stick with a ext2 partition (and 'live-rw' label!) as your persistence medium. would that work/help? greetings, karsten
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